I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.
In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.
The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...
We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.
The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.
High school was great when it ended.
My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.
I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.
nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
One doesn't remain a teenager forever.
We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.
Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.
So much alarmed that she is quite alarming
Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.
many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.
Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.
Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.
True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.
I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.
Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.
My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
Adolescence is like cactus.
When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.
In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.
In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.
she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.
L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.
The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.